Egg-carrier.



T. A. T. YERNESS.

EGG CARRIER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 13. 1915.

1,176,939. Patented Mar. 28, 1916.

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THOMAS A. T. YERNESS, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

' EGG-CARRIER.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that. I, TnoMAs A. T. YER.- NESS, a subject. of the Kingdom of Norway, and. a resident of the city of Chicago, in

the county of Cook. and State of Illinois,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Egg-Carriers, of which the following is full, clear, and exact description. 1

This invention relates to egg carriers, and its principal object is to provide a substantial card-board. or paste-board structure, 1n which eggs maybe shipped and earned without danger of breakage, although the carrier may be subjected to the rough handling which it usually receives when being transported from one place to another.

Another object is to economize room,

- whereby a large number of eggs may be confined in a given space, to simplify devices of this class; to strengthen and reinforce parts and thereby further guard "against breakage of the eggs carried by the carrier,

and further to provide a carrier in which the cell forming partitions are dupl cates of each other.

Other objects and advantages will appear in the course of this specification and, with all of said objects and advantages in view, this invention consists in .the several novel features hereinafter set forth and claimed.

1 The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

Figure 1 is a plan, partly broken out, of an egg carrier embodying a simple form of the present invention; Fig. 2 IS a plan of one of the blanks which enters into the construction of the device Fig. 3 is a plan of a blank from which a reinforcement member is made which is also used in the construction of the device; Fig. i is a vertical section through two egg carrier sections showing the'same in positiongfor use; the line of section being indicated at 1.4: of Fig. 1; Fig. 5is a vertical section taken on line 5:-5, Fig. 1, and,.Fig. 6 is a perspective view of a fragment of the carrier.

- Referring to said drawings and first to "Fig. 2, l0 designatesone of the blanks which is used in the construction of the carrier. For a carrier holding a. dozen eggs, e1ght blanks 10, are employed, four" extending in Specification of Letters Patent. Application filed September 13, 1915. Serial No.

. paste-board, or the Patented Mar. 28, 1916.

one direction and four at right. angles thereto. Each blank 10, is. formed of card-board, like, and is rectangular in form. In the two side edges of said blank notches 11, are out which have somewhat the outline of triangles, there being four notches in each side of the blank and disposed opposite to each other and. reversely arranged. The notches 11 are equidistant and their edges 12 are preferably rounded and the oblique edges 13 converge toward the side edges of the blank; at the corners formed by the edges 12, 13, are small notches 14, as shown. Midway between the side edges of the blank are holes 15, each having somewhat the shape of an hour-glass, the edges 16 being parallel with the side edges of the blank, and the edges 17 being parallel with the edges 13 of the notches and approximately in line therewith. The blanks shown and described are folded along their median lines, indicated at w, w, in Fig.2, and interlocked with. each other in assembling them into a carrier section. Associated with said blanks are reinforcing members, one of the blanks which forms a reinforcing member being shown in Fig. 3 at 18. I11 general, said blank 18 consists of a long strip of cardboard, paste-board or the like, of the same length as the blank 10, and having a width approximately equal to the sum of two of the oblique edges 17 of the hole 15. Preferably, the blank is made wider near its ends, as at 19, to form overhanging portions for interlocking with the blanks 10. In assembling the parts, the blanks 18 are folded on their median lines YY. Six blanks 18 are used in making a carrier for holding 12 eggs on each side of the carrier.

in an assembled carrier section, each blank 10, takes a V shape form in cross section, the four blanks extending in one direction, being of upright V shape and the four extending at right angles thereto being of inverted V shape, but lying in the same plane and being interlocked therewith, so that the side edge portions of each series of blanks are substantially flush with the apexes of the other series, as shown. Referring to Fig. l, the upright V blanks extend lengthwise of the sheet and the inverted blanks extend crosswise thereof;

in Fig. l the upright V blanks of the upper section and upright V blanks in Fig. 5 are in cross section, whereas the inverted V blanks are shown in side elevation or longi tudinal section. In each carrier section, the apex portion of each V blank extends through the notches 11, of the V blanks which it intersects, it

being understood that the'notches of each' series are in straight rows, and the two oblique halves of each V blank contact with the oblique edges 13 of the notches 11, the side edge portions being spaced a slight distance apart, as shown. The small notches 14, at the bottoms of the triangular notches 11 receive the adjacent portions of the inter secting V blanks, thus forming interlocking joints at all of the intersections between the crossing V blanks.

The reinforcing blanks 18 are folded on their median lines and inserted through. the openings 15, which take the form of double notches opening back from the folded edges of the V blanks. The widened end portions of the reinforcing blanks 18 engage with the end V blanks and prevent lengthwise movement of the reinforcing strips.

It is to be noted that the two oblique sides of any intermediate upright V blank, and the adjacent sides of two intermediate intersecting, inverted V blanks form a cell or pocket a, of pyramidal form, for the reception of an egg; that the same intermediate upright V blank forms two adjacent oblique sides for two pyramidal cells I), on the opposite side of the section, while the same two adjacent sides of the intermediate intersectinginverted V blanks form adjacent sides for two pyramidal cells; the cells on one side of the section being staggered with respect to those on the other side.

In use, two sections are used for carrying one dozen eggs, the eggs being placed in the upper cells of one section, after which a duplicate section is placed thereupon; to carry a second dozen of eggs a third section is added, the eggs being placed in the upper cells of the second section; in this way any desired number of eggs may be carried in one outer inclosure by the addition of as many other sections as is required. As is customary in carriers of this class, an outer carton or box (not shown) is provided into which the packet sections are inserted.

In assembling the several V blanks to form a section, four upright V blanks are placed parallel to each other, properly spaced apart, and four inverted V blanks placed thereabove and transverse thereto directly over the notches 11. By pressing the oblique sides of the V blanks toward each other, the crossing blanks may be brought into interlocked condition by inserting the unnotched or apex portions of oneseries into the notches 11 of the other and then permitting the oblique sides to spread apart and bear against the oblique edges of said notches 11. The reinforcing strips may then be slid into the notches 15.

This egg carrier may be collapsed by pressing any two diagonally opposite corners together before the two series are brought fully together; it may be found convenient to ship them, originally, in condensed form, and for this reason the carrier is made collapsible.

7 It is to be noted that the blankslO may be made longer than the one shown, and

that a greater number of notches 11, may.

be formed therein, so that a greater number of egg holding cells maybe had as is found desirable. I

More or less variation of the exactdeta-ils of construction is possible without depart-Q ing from the spirit of this invention; I desire, therefore, not to limit'myself to the exact form of construction shownjand described, but intend in the following claims to point out all of the invention disclosed herein.

Letters Patent; q 7

1. An egg carrier comprising a plurality of similar V-shaped cell forming members at the intersectingplaces.

I 9. I claim as new, and desire to secure by.

2. An egg carrier comprising a plurality I ofsimilar V-shaped'cell forming members arranged in two series, those of each series being parallel with each otheran'd'crossing those of the other series at right angles and in the same plane,- one series of v shaped members being. inverted, and both series forming cells oneach side of the'carrier, the cells on one side being staggered with respect to those on the other side.

3. An egg of similar V-shapedf cell forming 'members member being formed with notches, substantially triangular in form, one series of V members beinginverted and crossing the other series, the apex portions ofeach-series entering the triangular notches and being interlocked thereinf r 4:. An egg carrier comprising twozseries of similar V-shaped cellforming members, having oppositely disp'osed notches in. their carrier comprising a-plurality 1 arranged 1n two series, the two sides of each side edges substantiallytriangular in form, a

and having also V-shaped notchesin their apex portions midway'between said triangular notches, the members of one series ofV members being inverted and crossing those of the other series in the same plane, with their .apex portions interlocked in fthetris angular'notches,"and reinforcing strips,

shaped in cross section and extending triangular shaped notches in its side edges through said V-shaped notches in the apex for the reception of the apex portion of the 10 portions of the cell forming members. intersecting V-shaped cell forming member, 5. An egg carrier comprising two similar said intersecting membersforming pyrami- 5 series of V-shaped cell forming members, dal cells on each side of the carrier, those the members of one series being inverted and on one side being spaced from and stagintersecting those of the other series, each gered. With respect to those on the other side. 15 cell forming member having substantially V THOMAS A. T. YERNESS.

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